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This print is from a set entitled Verscheyden Schrynwerck als Portalen, Kleerkassen, Buffeten - engraved after a design by Paulus Vredeman de Vries. The set of designs are for woodwork, and this print shows a design for a buffet or sideboard and a cupboard. The design incorporates a female figures, drawing comparison between architecture and the human form.
Ornament designs like this were copied by artisans, who copied them in the making of furniture, vases, textiles and so on, and were important in spreading the influence of various styles.
The engravings were published by Claes Jansz. Visscher the Younger in 1630.
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